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Apple Debuts New Retina MacBook Pro Line

The rumor mill was right: Apple unveiled a new line of retina-display MacBook Pro computers on Tuesday at its iPad event in San Francisco. Apple is calling it "the best [MacBook] lineup we've ever had."

The new MacBook Pro laptops come with new processors, faster graphics and longer battery life.

"We've been really hard at work with the Mac," CEO Tim Cook told attendees.

The Macbook Pro 13-inch retina, which starts shipping on Tuesday, starts at $1,299. That's for a model with a dual-core 2.4GHz fourth-generation Intel Core i5 "Haswell" chip with Iris graphics, 4GB of RAM and a 128GB solid-state drive. Thanks to Haswell, battery life is an impressive 9 hours. Apple said the integrated Intel Iris graphics will deliver up to 90% faster performance than the previous generation MacBook Pro with retina.

Meanwhile, the flagship 15-inch Retina MacBook Pro lasts up to 8 hours of battery life and is powered by Intel's top of the line: a quad-core 2.4GHz Core i7 "Crystalwell" chip, along with 8GB of RAM. For graphics, the 15-inch model can have either integrated Intel Iris Pro graphics or Iris Pro paired with Nvidia GeForce GT 750M discrete graphics augmented by 2GB of video memory for "ultimate" performance. It starts at $1,999 and is available for sale today.

Both devices come with Thunderbolt 2 ports.

These retina displays themselves are the same — 2,560 x 1,600 on the 13-inch model and 2,880 x 1,800 on the 15-inch. The company first revealed a 15-inch retina model last summer and introduced its 13-inch version to retina at last year's iPad event.

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Apple's Oct. 22 Event

Tim Cook on Stage

Apple CEO Tim Cook opens the event.

OS X Mavericks

Craig Federighi, Apple's senior vice president of Software Engineering, shows off the features of OS X Mavericks.

"Free is good."

Federighi announced the new price for OS X Mavericks: free. It's available Tuesday.

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MacBooks

Philip Schiller, Apple's senior vice president of Worldwide Marketing, unveiled updates to the company's line of MacBooks.

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Mac Pro

Schiller outlines off the Mac Pro's features.

Mac Pro

Schiller shows the Mac Pro in action.

Making of the Mac Pro

A video captures how the Mac Pro is made.

iPads Sold

Cook says 170 million iPads have been sold.

iPad Air

Schiller reveals the new iPad and its new name: iPad Air. It's thinner, lighter and has a smaller bezel.

The New iPad: iPad Air

The iPad Air will be available in white, black and space gray.

iPad Air Specs

The chip inside the iPad Air is the same as the one in the iPhone 5S, the 64-bit A7.

iPad Air and iPad 2

The iPad 4 gets discontinued, but Apple is keeping the two-year-old iPad 2 in its lineup, starting at $399 for 16GB.

New iPad Mini and iPad Air

The iPad mini also gets a refresh, Schiller revealed.

iPad Mini

The Retina iPad mini has a screen resolution of 2048 x 1536 and maintains the same form-factor as the original.

Apple's Line of iPads

Here are Apple's new iPads and their pricing.

Audience at the Apple Event

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Yerba Buena Center for the Arts

The Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco, the night before Apple's product launch took place here.

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